The book is devoted to the history of foreign (inbound) tourism in the USSR from the first years of the establishment of Soviet power until 1991. The reader will receive information on the organizational foundations, the scale and geography of travel of foreigners in the Land of Soviets, learns many interesting facts about political, economic, social, psychological and communication features of inbound tourism in the country, which other authors called "closed" despite thousands and then millions of foreigners who visited it.